Musculoskeletal Injury Surveillance in the U.S. Military: Analysis of the ICD-10-CM Transition and Descriptive Report of Health Care Utilization at Four Sites Adopting MHS GENESIS- Military Medicine

b hando, v pav, b isaacson, c colahan, w funk, x yuan

The U.S. Military Health System (MHS) transitioned to the ICD-10-CM coding scheme in October 2015 and began the phased rollout of a new electronic health record system, MHS GENESIS, in October 2017. Both changes have the potential to affect the observed prevalence and health care utilization associated with musculoskeletal injuries (MSKIs) in service members. The purpose of this article was to (1) determine the effect of the ICD-10-CM transition on the observed prevalence of select MSKI conditions and (2) describe MSKI-related health care utilization in four MTFs during the adoption of MHS GENESIS.

Ben Hando, Veronika Pav, Brad Isaacson, Courtney Colahan, Wendy Funk, Xiaoning Yuan, Musculoskeletal Injury Surveillance in the U.S. Military: Analysis of the ICD-10-CM Transition and Descriptive Report of Health Care Utilization at Four Sites Adopting MHS GENESIS, Military Medicine, Volume 189, Issue Supplement_4, November/December 2024, Pages 78–86, https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usad462